Special Census Benefits Village

TINLEY PARK — The village expects to collect about $250,000 in additional state revenue after the recent completion of a special census, officials said.

Part of that money will pay the $70,000 cost of conducting the census, Mayor Ed Zabrocki said Tuesday.

The unofficial count is 44,978 residents, a 6.3 percent increase over the 1995 population. That is about the same percentage of growth shown in 1995, according to Jeanne Condon, deputy clerk.

Zabrocki said Tinley Park has been conducting a special census about every two years since the early 1980s so tax revenues will reflect its growing population. The amount of money towns receive from sources such as gasoline and income taxes is based on the number of residents.